Recent Gifts

The Trust is deeply grateful for all the gifts it receives. It is grateful not only for the gift itself but also for the moral support the gift confers. The Trust can only hope to achieve its aims if it continues to receive such encouragement. Thank you very much.

Jul 08

From Mr Leslie J Ramsey his self printed and published booklet entitled Dr. John Bartlet and his legacy dated July 2006. Dr Bartlet’s mother was Mary Caroline Cobbold (1802 – 1876) eldest daughter of John Wilkinson Cobbold (1774 – 1860). Dr Bartlet (1829 – 1917) was highly influential in Suffolk medical circles and was well known to many members of the family.

Jun 08

From Caroline Taylor (nee Cobbold)(1956) a white leather bound New Testament given to her for her Christening on 23rd March 1957 by her grandfather, Rowland Hope Cobbold (1905 – 1986) who had himself been given it for his Christening on 20th August 1905 by LHB (?)

Jun 08

From Mrs Sue Cumber, a financial donation partially in gratitude for some help the Trust was able to give as regards ‘The History of Margaret Catchpole’

May 08

From Richard Bosman in South Africa and Sarah Edmundson in Suffolk a lot of information on the Hawkins family. This is interesting because the first wife of Alfred Townshend Cobbold (1852 – 1934) was Mary Sarah Hawkins (1860 – 1885). They became engaged 11th November 1881, married 30th August 1883 and their daughter Margaret (Mary) Theodora (Mary Western) was born 2nd January 1885. Eight days later Alfred’s wife was dead. This added credence, if any were needed, to the well known ‘curse and fear’ of the Hawkins family, ‘death through childbirth’.

Mary Sarah’s mother, Margaret Dowie Monro (c1834-1913) was the granddaughter of Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1763 – 1820) who was born in Stornoway in the Western Isles. In 1788 he discovered and charted Canada’s longest river (2500 miles) known today as the MacKenzie River, one of eleven physical features in Canada named after him. In May 1793 he was the first to cross the American continent. His book ‘Voyages’ was a best seller in English and German and his fur interests made him one of Canada’s wealthiest men. He retired to Scotland, buying an estate at Avoch and is buried there in the churchyard.

Mar 08

From Peg Keeler (1919) in Canada, and with a little assistance from her daughter Shirley Fowley (1944) all their family tree information back to her great grandfather who was the first of the ten children of Arthur Thomas Cobbold (1815 – 1895) and Sarah Elliston (1813 – 1899) together with a delightful paperback book she wrote in 1996 entitled ’ “Howard” be thy Name’. Actually it was a family affair in that Peg wrote it, Shirley illustrated it and “Howard” was the family dog of an uncertain parentage and a hyper-active disposition but with infinite charm.

Peg has also sent the Trust copies of the favourite poems of her mother Elizabeth Hider (1894 – 1984), one of which is reproduced in this month’s Cobblets, together with a copy of the inscribed inside front cover of a Prayer Book given to Herman G A Elliston (1898 – 1899) by his Godmother at his Christening. Importantly, she also sent an original letter from Herman (later Herbert) James Elliston (1862 – 1922) to his daughter Hermona (1892 – 1991)dated 1917 at which time he was living at 55 Lacey St., Ipswich and working as a security guard.

Recent Acquisitions

Jul 08

William Cobbold: The Music for Five Voices and Viols, edited and reconstructed by Ian Payne. In addition to the five partbooks the work includes a biographical sketch.

Jul 08

Edgar Sterling Cobbold D.Sc., F.G.S, A Paper read before the Caradoc and S.V. Field Club, 4th December, 1936, by W.W.Watts Sc.D., LL.d., F.R.S.

Jul 08

Orchids by Dr Philip Cribb and Christopher Bailes (1992). Botanical illustrations by Julia Cobbold.

Jul 08

All about Fishing and Fishing Apparatus (1883) International Fisheries Exhibition, London; The Destruction of Fish and other Aquatic Animals by Internal Parasites, by T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. correspondent of the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia.

Jul 08

Boutell’s Heraldry, Originally by the Rev. Charles Boutell (1812 – 1877) but this edition dated 1958 revised by C.W.Scott-Giles, O.B.E. There are connections between Boutells, Chevalliers and Cobbolds.

Jul 08

The Serpent and The Stag, John Pearson’s saga of the Cavendish Family which includes two nice quotes by Lady Blanche on Chatsworth and Devonshire House.

Jul 08

A Joy for Ever (1907) by John Ruskin, First Slade Professor of Art at Oxford. The book contains some thoughts on the duties that link generations which are to be the subject of a Feature at some later date.

Jun 08

A further 17 Elizabeth Cobbold paper-cuts, some framed and some unframed. A few are unfinished which would suggest a date of 1821 or 1822.

Jun 08

A magazine featuring Paul Cobbold, Recording Producer / Engineer. The July 1985 edition of Home Studio Recording carries a three page interview with Paul by John Harris. He started Chapel Lane Studios near Hereford with Rob Andrews at the start of a most interesting career and the Trust would very much like to be in touch with him.

Jun 08

Amazing Grace, An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1660 – 1810 edited by James Busker was acquired for its inclusion of an extract from ‘Atomboka and Omaza; An African Story’ (1787) by Eliza Knipe, better known to us as Elizabeth Cobbold (1764 – 1824)

Jun 08

A letter signed by Richard Cobbold (1797 – 1877) addressed to John Wilson Esquire regarding the latter’s tenant at Buggs (?) House. Undated but c.1850

Apr 08

The Murder of Nellie Duffy by Stephanie Bennett, a paperback sub-titled, A Compelling Account of a Legendary and Brutal Crime. Published in Australia in 2001 this is an exhaustive reconstruction of an unsolved murder which happened at Queensland’s remote Carpentaria Downs station in 1908 just a few years after its occupation by Francis Edward Cobbold (1853 – 1935). It contains some interesting floor plans and photographs of the station which was probably pretty much unchanged since FE’s time. The unfortunate Nellie Duffy was laid to rest at Carpentaria in a grave next to that of FE’s first wife, Bessie Fulford who died there in 1898, aged only 28 having been married for just 9 years.

Recent Restorations

Jul 08

Six major book restoration tasks have been completed.

• Father’s Legacy (1850), leather re-back, retaining remnant of original spine and missing top panel made good.
• Trautwine’s Civil Engineer’s Pocket Book (1911), re-backed with missing corners scarfed in, and missing paste-down replaced from period stock.
• The Comforter (1850), calf re-back, corners re-tipped; gold/blind finishing with original label retained.
• Wars of the Roses (1859), calf re-back and original spine re-laid.
• Margaret Catchpole (paperback c 1870), book-block pulled, re-sewn and re-formed with title to spine as per original. Solander box constructed
• Illustrations of Margaret Catchpole (c1850), album pages cleaned in situ, script pages removed, cleaned and replaced.

Apr 08

The following books from the Trust’s Collection have been sent away for professional restoration work:

• Margaret Catchpole (paperback edition)
• Trautwine
• The Comforter
• Father’s Legacy
• Wars of the Roses

The Richard Cobbold Watercolours Album has also gone away for much needed restoration.

In both cases the Conservators selected are of the highest repute having worked for The British Library and The National Trust. The task is to put the items into a condition in which they can be safely lightly handled and further deterioration is prevented.

Some of these items will be exhibited at Glemham Hall at the end of July 2008. See PAPER-CUTS, POEMS, a PARSON and his PICTURES (The Work of Elizabeth Cobbold and her son Richard) in News March 08

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Artifacts

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The Trust now has a collection of some 36 reference books from 1836 to 2002 but it still needs more. They are in use daily and are of enormous help. Gifts of old copies of Debrett’s, Kelly’s, Burke’s, Who’s Who and People of Today, etc. will be most welcome.